I’ll be reading for Apeiron once more, and I look forward to seeing some great stories. If you didn’t know, Apeiron Review is a literary magazine based in Philadelphia that publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and a few photos. I’m one of many Slush Readers who help to decide what does and doesn’t get published.

So do you think your writing is good? Do you like simultaneous submissions? Are you happy you don’t have to pay us to submit like other literary magazines? Do you have any short stories you’ve been holding onto? Send them in! Show me what you got!

We want something real, something beautiful, something ugly, and something that sings to the far reaches of our being. Make us laugh or make us cry, but we want something visceral. Free verse poems are generally favored over those that rhyme. Experimentation is encouraged. There are no limits on form, but please keep short stories and nonfiction to 3k or less.

For those of you who don’t know, I do some slush-reading work for a literary magazine called Apeiron Review. Last year we got tons of submissions, and I spent a long time slushing through stories and poems. We published some great stuff here. Check out my recommendations:

Poetry:

Outside the Church with a Cigarette
Losing Elnora May
Razor Perch
The Empire of Silence
Mental Health Movies
Clockwork
An Empty Playground
-ectomy

Fiction:

Twelve
Shangri-La
The Unabridged Autobiography of Ron Riekki
1964
God’s Plan
To Summit or Not to Summit
Drought
Casas de Mercy and Love

So I’m super excited that Raven Chronicles picked my photo (even if those ravens were actually crows). Check them out at RavenChronicles.Org, and buy yourself a copy if you love fiction and art that reflects cultural diversity in the Pacific Northwest and other regions.

Hi, everyone. I want to highlight an author interview I conducted for Apeiron Review.

I spoke with Andréa J. Onstad regarding the story we published over at Apeiron.

The Cat and The Tree was one of my favorite pieces from slushing so far, and I was thrilled we were able to share her work. What made me really happy was the chance to pick her brain. So read the story and follow up with the interview for a peak into the creative process.